Composer
Setting of the poem by Muriel Rukeyser, for mezzo-soprano and piano. Text used by permission of Bill Rukeyser. Composed for the Del Mar International Composers Symposium, August 2025.
Performance by Sarah-Nicole Carter, mezzo, and Phil Dannels, piano.
Setting of the poem by Charlotte Mew, for mezzo-soprano (or other voice) and piano. A bit in the vein of a jazz standard.
Score (PDF)
Performance (MP3) by Zahra Rothschild, mezzo, and me at the piano.
A Neapolitan Christmas carol. The tune is a bit different from the well-known version — I believe the source is The International Book of Christmas Carols (Prentice Hall, 1963). For choir SATB and piano.
Recording, by the San Francisco Bach Choir. (Magen Solomon, director — Steven Bailey, pianist.)
Duet for violin and piano, composed November 2021.
Score (PDF)
Violin part (PDF)
Synthesized demo of violin part (MP3)
A setting of the Herman Melville poem, for choir and piano. SATB with brief divisi.
Two songs for soprano and piano, from poems by William Morris. (Yes, that William Morris.)
Songs for voice and piano, with texts from three different writers, composed over the last two years.
“Virtue” is performed by Morgan Balfour, soprano, with James Maverick, piano. “Piano” and “I came like you” are performed by Caleb Lewis, baritone, with Gabe Merrill-Steskal, piano.
The Yeats is part of a complete setting of the play At the Hawk’s Well as a one-act chamber opera.
For solo piano. June 2019. About 5m.
Score (PDF).
Vance Maverick 